Danny Wilcox Frazier’s portraits of an Iowa community struck twice by fire featured in the February 2010 edition of Reader’s Digest.
Danny Wilcox Frazier’s photograph from the 2008 presidential election was used to illustrate The New York Times Magazine recurring section, “The Way We Live Now” in the January 24th, 2010 edition.
Danny Wilcox Frazier photographed Joe Moglia, former chief executive of TD Ameritrade, for the January 18th, 2010 issue of Forbes.
AmericanPoverty.org announced two student grants for the development of “projects that would demonstrate the urgent need for poverty alleviation” and “success stories that could lead the way toward improving millions of lives.”
“AmericanPoverty.org Student Summer Grants are open to full-time undergraduate or graduate students under the age of 26, any student under age 26 who will graduate in the winter or spring of 2010, or any photographer or filmmaker under the age of 23 who is neither employed full-time as a staff photographer/video/multimedia journalist or deriving significant income as a freelancer in those fields. Two persons, e.g., a writer and photographer or a videographer and broadcast journalist, can apply as a team but only one grant will be awarded, to be split by both applicants.”
Two $3000 grants are available, one for the production of a still photo component, the other for video/multimedia. Documentary film students, broadcast students, journalism and photojournalism students, as well as any young person aspiring to become a professional in those fields, is encouraged to apply.
AmericanPoverty.org is the inaugural project of In Our Own Backyard, an organization of leading photojournalists that includes Redux photographer Danny Wilcox Frazier, in addition to Steve Liss, Eli Reed, Paul Fusco, Jon Lowenstein, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Lori Grinker, and Andrew Lichtenstein. AmericanPoverty.org is “a multimedia examination of the daily struggles of impoverished Americans.” IOOB is “committed to the cause of social reform in the United States” through the development of immersive photographic and educational curriculum.
For Grant information and application instructions, visit http://americanpoverty.org/grants
Congratulations to Danny for receiving one of two $20,000 grants from the Aftermath Project for his project “Wounded Knee: Generations Endure a Massacre”. (View Danny’s portfolio)
From http://www.theaftermathproject.org/:
This year, 160 applicants around the world applied for the Aftermath Project’s fourth year of funding, up about 15 percent from last year.
A first round of screening was done in Los Angeles on Nov 11th, by Lesley Meyers of the Annenberg Space for Photography, and Sara Terry, photographer and founder/director of The Aftermath Project. At that time, 104 applicants were moved forward to final judging, which took place on November 16, at Host Gallery in London. This year’s judges were Jon Levy of Foto8, Andrea Stern of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Sara Terry.
The judges were impressed with Danny Wilcox Frazier’s proposal about the aftermath of the Wounded Knee massacre in South Dakota, and the Lakota Indian people who are still fighting for disputed lands. The judges were particularly pleased to find such a strong proposal that examines the aftermath of a conflict on American soil.
Frazier is best known for his black-and-white work, “Driftless: Stories from Iowa,” which won the Honickman First Book Prize, chosen by Robert Frank. His Wounded Knee work will be a combination of color and black-and-white, as he explores the generational legacy of a massacre which holds the dubious distinction of being the event which ended the war between colonial/US forces and Indian Nations throughout North America. The images Frazier submitted with his Aftermath grant proposal reflected his strongly emotive approach to photography, and reflected the rural sensibilities that he captured so well in his Iowa work.
Danny Wilcox Frazier documented Boise, Idaho’s housing turnaround for the August 10, 2009 issue of Time.
Danny Wilcox Frazier photographed Janesville, Wisconsin for a feature article on the downfall of the town’s economy for the September-October 2009 issue of Mother Jones.
Danny Wilcox Frazier documented Boise, Idaho’s housing turnaround for Time.com. View the slideshow here.
Videos from Danny Wilcox Frazier’s series Driftless are available on Mediastorm.org.
View all six of Frazier’s movies here.
Driftless: Stories from Iowa, a film by Danny Wilcox Frazier, will be screened by MediaStorm on Monday, May 18, at 7:00pm at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Visit the MediaStorm blog for additional information.